Recent news on Sulfadoxine

Evaluation of leading combination regimens for treating malaria  -  25 May 2007
News-Medical.net,The children were randomized to receive 1 of 3 combination therapies (amodiaquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, amodiaquine plus artesunate,

Improving Surveillance for Antimalarial Drug Resistance  -  May 22, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),For example, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine plus artesunate was more effective than sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine alone in East Africa where

Novartis malaria drug works best, study finds  -  May 22, 2007
Malaysia Star,Amodiaquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a low-cost combination of two older drugs, fared worst, with a risk for failure rate of 26.1 percent.

Coartem malaria drug works best, study finds  -  May 22, 2007
Independent Online,Amodiaquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a low-cost combination of two older drugs, fared worst, with a risk for failure rate of 26,1 percent.

Novartis Malaria Drug Works Best, Study Finds  -  May 22, 2007
Javno.hr,Amodiaquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a low-cost combination of two older drugs, fared worst, with a risk for failure rate of 26.1 percent.

Malaria in Multiple Family Members—Chicago, Illinois, 2006  -  May 22, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),For example, chloroquine-resistant malaria is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, and resistance to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine also occurs

Combination Therapy for Uncomplicated Falciparum Malaria in ...  -  May 22, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Interventions Study participants were randomized to receive 1 of 3 combination therapies (amodiaquine plus sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, amodiaquine plus

Uganda: Four New Malaria Drugs in the Offing  -  May 16, 2007
AllAfrica.com,The malaria parasite has become resistant to widely-used drugs, including two inexpensive medications, chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine."

Artemether-lumefantrine most effective combination therapy for ...  -  May 22, 2007
Aidsmap,In the wake of escalating treatment failures associated with chloroquine and sulfadoxine pyrimethamine (SP), the World Health Organization (WHO) has

Don’t Sleep With Your Chickens  -  May 22, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Half-empty bottles of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp), along with tattered pink registry forms and a hand-ruled

CCF Takes Action to Combat Malaria  -  May 10, 2007
Christian Children's Fund,...artemisinin-based combination therapy, insecticide-treated mosquito nets and chemoprophylaxis with sulfadoxine-pyremethamine therapy for pregnant women.

Africa marks “Malaria Dayâ€?  -  May 4, 2007
Baku Sun,The treatment, artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), is made up of two drugs: artesunate and sulfadoxine- pyramethamine. Christian Balslev-Olesen

East Africa: Region Unveils Tougher Measures to Fight Malaria  -  Apr 25, 2007
AllAfrica.com,..."Drugs which were formerly used for treatment of malaria, including chloroquine and SP [Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine] have proved ineffective and the

East Africa unveils tougher malaria fight  -  26 Apr 2007
afrol News,..."Drugs which were formerly used for treatment of malaria, including chloroquine and SP [Sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine] have proved ineffective and the

Tanzania: We Can Beat Malaria Now  -  Apr 25, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Third, if you are pregnant, in addition to sleeping under an insecticide treated bed net every night, get two does of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine (SP) as part

Judd: How a $10 net can stop a killer  -  Apr 24, 2007
CNN InternationalSimilarly, pregnant women who take a drug called sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine can protect their unborn children from anemia, low birth weight, and death.

Madagascar: Cyclones Indlala and Jaya - Situation Report No. 5  -  Apr 5, 2007
ReliefWeb (press release),31000 tablets of sulfadoxine-pyrimetamin will be distributed to pregnant women. 17. 100000 oral re-hydration solution (ORS) packets and 85000 zinc tablets

Vitamins and Perinatal Outcomes among HIV-Negative Women in Tanzania  -  Apr 4, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),They were also given malaria prophylaxis in the form of sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine tablets (Fansidar, Roche) at 20 weeks and 30 weeks of gestation.

On The Trail Of A Cure: Reality And Rhetoric On Treating Malaria  -  Mar 22, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...failure rates of up to 64 percent in patients given chloroquine and 45 percent given sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine--and those figures are climbing.

Incidence of malaria has come down, says Economic Survey  -  Feb 28, 2007
India PRwire (Press Release),...'The government has introduced a new drug combination of Aretemisinin plus Sulfadoxine-Pyremethamine for treating such resistant cases,' said the survey.

WHO issues guidelines for cultivating plant for anti-malaria medicines  -  Mar 13, 2007
Malaysia Sun,...the widespread resistance of Plasmodium falciparum to conventional anti-malarial drugs, such as chloroquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and amodiaquine.

A returning scourge reminds us to be disciplined, vigilant  -  Dec 29, 2006
Jamaica Observer,Some strains of plasmodium, the organism which causes the disease, have developed resistance to chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, and as many as

Malaria treatment compromised by suppressed immunity in HIV ...  -  Dec 13, 2006
Aidsmap,Specifically, it highlights low CD4 cell counts of less than 200 cells/mm 3 as a significant risk factor for sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine treatment failure.

Chloroquine Disuse to Boost Its Future Effectiveness  -  Nov 29, 2006
AllAfrica.com,Only one of those who were treated with chloroquine failed to recover and 71 of those treated with a combination of sulfadoxine and pryrimethamine also

Experts Warn On Coartem  -  Nov 29, 2006
AllAfrica.com,...drug efficacy studies since 1998 to 2004 that showed a 30% and a 10% chloroquine and sulfadoxine/pyrimeth-amine (fansidar) resistance in a 1998-1999 study.

Africa: Taking the Fight Against Malaria to Americans  -  Dec 14, 2006
AllAfrica.com,And then there are sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, or SPs, which the project will buy and distribute, as pre-emptive treatment, to pregnant women.

Group advises on malaria prevention and control  -  Dec 5, 2006
The Statesman Online,On Intermittent Preventive Treatment of infants, the expert committee said that given the high levels of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance emerging in

A military outbreak spurs research  -  Dec 4, 2006
Scientist,The move followed decades of malaria breakthroughs from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR): chloroquine in 1949, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine

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